Lecturer in Development Economics

Job id: 086547. Wage: £43,205 – £50,585 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 19 March 2024. Time limit: 16 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: Social Science & Public Coverage. Division: Division of Worldwide Improvement.

Contact particulars:Sarah Bracking. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Educational & Educating.

Job description

The Division of Worldwide Improvement, King’s Faculty London, is a younger, progressive and up to date Improvement Research division. Our focus is on middle-income creating nations. The mission of the division is to discover the sources of success in addition to perceive the most important improvement challenges these nations proceed to face, with a concentrate on decreasing poverty and inequality and serving to to foster larger wellbeing.  

The Division is looking for to nominate a Lecturer in Improvement Economics for a one-year mounted interval of 15 months starting in September 2024. The profitable candidate could have a PhD in improvement economics or a intently associated discipline. The publish holder shall be anticipated to show programs in Macroeconomics for Improvement and Financial Inequality and the Distribution of Revenue to undergraduate college students with some further undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation supervision duties. We welcome candidates with a powerful understanding of quantitative strategies, and a confirmed means to show improvement economics at an achieved degree. 

The profitable candidate will be a part of an interdisciplinary departmental neighborhood at present engaged on a variety of matters together with political economic system, inequality and poverty, gender rights, pure sources, worldwide commerce, migration, well being coverage, and different urgent points going through rising economies at this time. The post-holder ought to exhibit proof of related analysis and educating and fulfil the necessities as set out under. 

This publish shall be accountable to the Head of the Division of Worldwide Improvement. 

At King’s, we’re deeply dedicated to embedding good equality and variety apply into all of our actions in order that the college is an inclusive, welcoming and provoking place to work and examine, no matter age, incapacity, gender reassignment, marital standing, being pregnant and maternity, race, faith, intercourse or sexual orientation. King’s gives inclusive advantages to workers together with versatile working, Enhanced Parental Go away, funds for Dad and mom and Carers and the potential to affix neighborhood workers networks. 

This can be a full-time mounted time period publish (100% full time equal) for 15 months.

Key duties

• To contribute to the educating programme in Improvement Economics.
• To contribute analysis, impression, information trade and postdoctoral analysis coaching in accordance with the priorities of the Division of Worldwide Improvement.
• To undertake the supervision of postgraduate analysis, at Grasp’s and PhD ranges.
• To take a task within the planning, organisation and supply of educating actions (each on-campus and on-line) inside the Division in accordance with established apply.
• To take part totally in evaluation and examination processes as applicable utilizing quite a lot of strategies and methods and supply efficient, well timed and applicable suggestions to college students to help their studying.
• To help with difficulties encountered by college students, e.g. studying help/issues.
• To have interaction in skilled improvement as applicable to replace abilities, and to help educating excellence.
• To just accept tutorial accountability inside the Division, involving departmental administrative duties the place applicable.
• To undertake another cheap duties that could be requested by the Head of Division.

The above listing of duties will not be exhaustive, and the publish holder shall be required to undertake such duties and duties as might moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the publish.

Abilities, information, and expertise 

Important standards

1.      PhD in improvement economics or a intently associated self-discipline [e.g economics] 

2.      Demonstrable experience as utilized to middle-income nations  

3.      Skill to show quantitative analysis strategies 

4.      Proof by means of publications of a capability to supply work of their specialist discipline at a global customary  

5.      Demonstrable means to design and ship educating successfully at undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree, each on-campus (important) and on-line (fascinating) 

6.      Demonstrable dedication to equality, variety and inclusion  

7.      Wonderful interpersonal abilities to develop and keep good working relationships  

Fascinating standards

1.      Proof of buying aggressive analysis grants, or proof of potential to draw analysis funding  

2.      Proof of engagement with applicable analysis and coverage communities 

3.      Confirmed expertise of educational management applicable to profession degree, of collaborating with and influencing analysis customers, and of writing analysis proposals to exterior funding organisations 

Shortlisted candidates shall be invited to a presentation to the division and an interview. The publish is scheduled to start out in September 2024.